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sermon

ser·mon/ˈsɝ.mən/noun

sermon is spelled S-E-R-M-O-N: 6 letters and 2 syllables (ser·mon). It appears 3.9 times per million words in written English, the 13,127th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sermon means “Religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sermon is sermons.

How many letters and syllables are in sermon?

Letters6: S-E-R-M-O-N
Syllables2: ser·mon
In writing3.9 times per million words; the 13,127th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is sermon?

Sermon appears 3.9 times per million words in written English, the 13,127th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce sermon?

  • UK /ˈsɜː.mən/
  • US /ˈsɝ.mən/

Sermon has 2 syllables, split ser·mon in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-sermon.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with sermon?

3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sermon from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹmən/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of sermon

  • sermons plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • sermoning participle, present
  • sermoned participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does sermon mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter.

  2. 2

    A lengthy speech of reproval.

verb

  1. 1

    obsoleteTo discourse to or of, as in a sermon.

    January 23 1583, Edmund Spenser, letter to Walter Raleigh To some I know this methode will seem displeasaunt, which had rather have good discipline delivered plainly in way of precepts, or sermoned at large, as they use, then thus clowdily

  2. 2

    obsoleteTo tutor; to lecture.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Sermon in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchsermon, prêche (religious discourse)
GermanPredigt (religious discourse), Moralpredigt, Strafpredigt (speech of reproval)
Portuguesesermão (religious discourse)
Spanishsermón, plática, prédica (religious discourse)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does sermon come from?

From Middle English sermoun, from Anglo-Norman sermun and/or Old French sermon, from Latin sermō, sermōnem, from Proto-Indo-European *sermō, from *ser- (“to bind”) + *-mō. Displaced native Old English wordpredicung, literally word + preaching.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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